Table 1.
Species diversity indices by trap type. Values for Simpson’s Index of diversity, Shannon-Wiener’s diversity and Shannon-Wiener’s evenness for two trap types in three countries, Sweden, the Netherlands and Italy
Taxonomic diversity | Sweden | The Netherlands | Italy | |||
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BGS | MMLP | BGS | MMLP | BGS | MMLP | |
No. of samples (trapping nights) | 138 | 136 | 159 | 153 | 160 | 141 |
No. of species trapped | 14 | 29 | 8 | 12 | 16 | 24 |
No. of specimens trapped | 270 | 1028 | 2397 | 899 | 2108 | 3489 |
Simpson’s Diversity Index | 0.776 | 0.877 | 0.091 | 0.475 | 0.469 | 0.722 |
Shannon-Wiener’s diversity | 1.874 | 2.377 | 0.225 | 0.942 | 1.033 | 1.611 |
Shannon-Wiener’s evenness | 0.71 | 0.706 | 0.108 | 0.379 | 0.373 | 0.507 |
Abbreviations: BGS Biogents Sentinel trap, MMLP Mosquito Magnet Liberty Plus trap